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Foundation (2021)
sigh 19 points 3 years ago.

If anyone wants to know, if you want to read all the books in galaxy chronological order, be warned prelude might have spoilers for the rest after! There can be 15 up to 26. Here’s the list I nerdily compiled:

·End of Eternity (Harlan’s timeline to colonization, optional)
·Complete Robot (anth incl. I, Robot so either is fine)
·Lucky Starr Series (6 books mentions laws of robotics, optional)
·Nemesis (optional)
·Caves of Steel
·Naked Sun
·Robots of Dawn
·Robots and Empire
·Stars, Like Dust (asimov goofed with the order in prelude)
·Currents of Space
·Pebble in the Sky
·Prelude to Foundation
·Forward the Foundation
·Foundation
·Foundation and Empire
·Second Foundation
·Foundation’s Edge
·Foundation and Earth
His friends then wrote with permission of family (not as good but fun)
·Foundations Fear
·Foundation and Chaos
·Foundations Triumph

New to it?
TO AVOID SPOILERS in order of reader discovery you can read the Foundation series:
~ The original Foundation Trilogy
~ Foundation’s Edge
~ Foundation and Earth
~ Prelude to Foundation
~ Forward the Foundation

grasshopper rex 2 points 3 years ago.

I highly recommend your abbreviated reading list in that exact order as the 2 prequels (Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation) contain spoilers.

The Second Foundation trilogy (the books written by Benford,Bear and Brin) where very good, actually. All 3 are highly acclaimed authors within their own rights. But yeah, the writing styles of all 3 are different from each other and from Assimov’s so I would recommend reading them after Forward the Foundation if you are left wanting more (even though they fit in at various places during the original trilogy).